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  Top 10 Poets – England The - The...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
  In this volume we explore the work of those poets born on this spear of land that thrusts into the Atlantic.   From its sumptuous, wild landscape and ancient cultures, wise and knowing poems of beauty became embedded in our common poetical heritage.

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  Untethered Love

  Bobbie Isabel

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  What types of love can you feel when you're free from everything that binds you? In this poetry collection, Bobbie Isabel shares poems that speak to various types of love, such as love of a child and self love in addition to romantic and erotic love.

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  The Artist and the Beautiful -...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a town synonymous with the earlier Salem Witch Trials. It was instrumental in Hawthorne’s later use of American Gothic and dark romanticism in his writing. 
   
  He was a mere four years old when his father died and his mother took him and his two sisters to live with her family and then on to their own home in Raymond, Maine. The young Hawthorne had a passion for fiction and poetry and voraciously read the works of Ann Radcliffe, Henry Fielding and Lord Byron.  
   
  He was sent to college at his maternal uncle’s insistence. During these years he met and befriended Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future U S president Franklin Pierce. These friendships were lifelong and to have a crucial impact on his writings and career.  
   
  At college Hawthorne had made attempts at writing short stories and essays but without opportunities to publish. It was only in 1828 that he finally published his novel ‘Franshawe’ to little success and so he began work as editor for the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge.  
   
  Hawthorne’s short stories were first published in magazines but in 1837 were collected and published as ‘Twice-Told Tales’. A steady literary career still did not come his way and so he worked in a good position at Salem’s port and married the love of his life Sophia Peabody. They moved to live in ‘The Old Manse’ at Concord, Massachusetts.   
   
  Finally. in 1850 came spectacular literary and commercial success with ‘The Scarlet Letter’ followed by ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ the following year.  
   
  In 1852, Hawthorne published a biography of presidential candidate Franklin Pierce. After Pierce’s victory he was appointed consul in Liverpool, a position that offered prestige, money and fame. At the end of this appointment he returned several times to Europe before settling in Massachusetts and resuming writing and publication. 
   
  During the early 1860’s his health declined and on 19th May 1864 during a trip to Plymouth, New Hampshire. He was 59 and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.  
   
  In his short story ‘The Artist of the Beautiful’ Hawthorne creates a work, now considered early science fiction, that weaves an unrequited life-long love with the creation of a beautiful miniature object that is both breath-taking and heart-breaking.

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  Born in the USA - The New York...

  Herman Melville, George Arnold,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most famous cities in the World: New York. Within its five boroughs are a small universe of wonder and magic, a kaleidoscope of almost everything the planet has to offer.  In past times New York was a gateway to a new land and a new future whatever the misery and tragedy of your former life.  Of course, this golden vision was not attained by everyone.  But our local poets, including such luminaries as Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Alice Duer Miller, and Alan Seeger bring vision and truth to this unrivalled city and its hallowed status in the world of verse. 
   
   
  1 - Born in the USA. The New York City Poets.  Exploring American Poetry - An Introduction 
  2 - September by George Arnold 
  3 - October by George Arnold 
  4 - A Chant of Love for England by Helen Gray Cone 
  5 - Rheims Cathedral, 1914 by Grace Hazard Conkling 
  6 - To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window by Adelaide Crapsey 
  7 - Keats by Adelaide Crapsey 
  8 - The Revolt of Mother by Alice Duer Miller 
  9 - To the Night Breeze by Alice & Caroline Duer 
  10 - Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch 
  11 - The Wild Honey Suckle by Phillip Freneau 
  12 - A Political Litany by Philip Freneau 
  13 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau 
  14 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 
  15 - Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe 
  16 - This Curse by Henry James 
  17 - Old Manuscript by Alfred Kreymborg 
  18 - Cradle by Alfred Kreymborg 
  19 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  20 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus 
  21 - Assurance by Emma Lazarus 
  22 - Evil In Design by Emma Lazarus 
  23 - America by Herman Melville 
  24 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville 
  25 - Look-Out Mountain by Herman Melville 
  26 - Shiloh by Herman Melville 
  27 - The Portent by Herman Melville 
  28 - A Visit From St Nicholas (T'Was The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  29 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  30 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray 
  31 - Silent Thoughts by Charles Lewis Reason 
  32 - The Spirit Voice or Liberty Call to The Disfranchised by Charles Lewis Reason 
  33 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  34 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger 
  35 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
  36 - At the Tomb of Napoleon by Alan Seeger 
  37 - Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton 
  38 - Survival by Edith Wharton 
  39 - Non Dolet by Edith Wharton 
  40 - Terminus by E

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  The Crown Jewels (NHB Modern Plays)

  Simon Nye

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  It's 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing – in plain sight – the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
  With an audacious plan and a gang of misfits by his side, can he possibly pull it off? And is King Charles II in any mood to have his crown jewels handled?
  Based on the scarcely believable true story, Simon Nye's play The Crown Jewels is a riotous and uproarious royal affair. It opened at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End in 2023 before touring, and was directed by Sean Foley with a star-studded cast including Al Murray, Mel Giedroyc, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Aidan McArdle, Neil Morrissey, Joe Thomas and Tanvi Virmani.
  It will appeal to any amateur theatre company – monarchists and republicans alike – who want to get their hands on a royally funny caper to perform.

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  The correct fury of your why is...

  Kevin Andrew Heslop

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  Poet-critic Jim Johnstone has described Kevin Heslop's the correct fury of your why is a mountain as among “the most promising poetic projects to come out of Canada in recent years.” This debut collection communicates Heslop’s sense of balance as a visual artist, curator, and poet who weights the page with visual harmony. By turns experiment, lyric, and incantation, the book nods to its author’s training as an actor, combining a command of language, form, character, and polyphony to make something performatively unique.

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